Text-messaging fee hikes antitrust?

June 17, 2009 at 11:55 am

Federal investigators are being asked if there’s an antitrust problem with a 100% jump in some text-messaging charges by the four companies that control most of the market — Verizon, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, and T-Mobile. School of Law Professor Keith Hylton, an expert in antitrust law, says it might look suspicious, “but the law requires proof of conspiracy, not merely parallel conduct.”